Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -56 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,540 1,842 3,640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 4.32% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 4.63% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 965 2,730
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £43,225
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -8.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,427 39,782 82,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 93.32% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,356 20,831 59,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,797 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 1,402 £75,000 +0.17% 568
London +6 714 £85,000 - 255
UK excluding London -107 699 £67,500 -3.57% 368
Work from Home -34 656 £69,655 -0.49% 313
North of England -61 311 £69,310 -4.07% 118
South East -64 171 £67,500 - 101
North West -62 153 £72,500 +1.75% 79
Yorkshire -18 101 £69,310 -7.43% 25
Midlands -85 73 £67,750 +4.23% 34
South West -88 64 £52,500 -23.39% 55
North East +3 57 £65,000 -9.72% 14
West Midlands -61 52 £77,500 +10.71% 18
East of England -18 40 £60,100 -3.84% 17
Scotland -72 30 £62,500 -20.70% 13
East Midlands -76 20 £66,000 +5.60% 16
Northern Ireland -28 9 £62,500 +25.00% 24
Wales -41 8 £53,171 +2.25% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.10%) Confluence
3 14 (0.91%) Apache
3 14 (0.91%) IIS
3 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.84%) CMS
5 12 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.71%) JBoss
7 7 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.19%) Liferay
11 3 (0.19%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.45%) Maya
3 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Actimize
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.065%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 826 (53.64%) AWS
2 633 (41.10%) Azure
3 312 (20.26%) GCP
4 251 (16.30%) Serverless
5 152 (9.87%) SaaS
6 129 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (8.25%) GitHub
8 118 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (6.95%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 48 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.92%) Datadog
18 44 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.90%) Broadband
2 22 (1.43%) Network Security
3 11 (0.71%) DNS
4 10 (0.65%) HTTP
4 10 (0.65%) MQTT
5 8 (0.52%) Internet
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
6 7 (0.45%) AMQP
6 7 (0.45%) DHCP
6 7 (0.45%) Firewall
7 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) LTE
9 4 (0.26%) RFID
10 3 (0.19%) DMARC
10 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 3 (0.19%) SNMP
10 3 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.86%) NoSQL
2 190 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 183 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (5.97%) MySQL
5 81 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 76 (4.94%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.77%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.47%) Redis
12 33 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.95%) Big Data
14 23 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.65%) DB2
16 10 (0.65%) Power BI
17 7 (0.45%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (12.60%) Git
2 143 (9.29%) GitLab
3 131 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.77%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.86%) JIRA
5 44 (2.86%) JUnit
6 36 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 32 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 31 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 30 (1.95%) Mockito
10 29 (1.88%) Maven
11 25 (1.62%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.04%) Selenium
14 15 (0.97%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.97%) Vite
15 14 (0.91%) JMeter
16 8 (0.52%) Postman
16 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 443 (28.77%) Finance
2 302 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 163 (10.58%) Banking
4 131 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.49%) Law
6 96 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.52%) Retail
8 75 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (3.51%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.99%) Back Office
11 35 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.17%) Billing
13 18 (1.17%) Legal
14 17 (1.10%) Advertising
14 17 (1.10%) Marketing
15 15 (0.97%) Games
16 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.78%) Front Office
18 9 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 525 (34.09%) Developer
2 407 (26.43%) Senior
3 321 (20.84%) Software Engineer
4 224 (14.55%) Architect
5 206 (13.38%) Lead
6 139 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 133 (8.64%) Java Developer
8 124 (8.05%) Senior Developer
9 107 (6.95%) Java Engineer
9 107 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 101 (6.56%) .NET Developer
11 86 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 59 (3.83%) Software Developer
14 55 (3.57%) Lead Developer
14 55 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
15 50 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.05%) Senior Java Engineer
17 46 (2.99%) C# Developer
17 46 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (21.88%) React
2 329 (21.36%) .NET
3 280 (18.18%) RESTful
4 267 (17.34%) Node.js
5 257 (16.69%) Spring
6 233 (15.13%) Spring Boot
7 220 (14.29%) REST
8 196 (12.73%) Kafka
9 127 (8.25%) AngularJS
10 112 (7.27%) .NET Core
11 102 (6.62%) ASP.NET
12 99 (6.43%) Vue
13 89 (5.78%) gRPC
14 86 (5.58%) HTML
15 77 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (4.94%) CSS
17 66 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
18 65 (4.22%) .NET Framework
19 54 (3.51%) OAuth
20 53 (3.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 433 (28.12%) Cloud Native
2 264 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 81 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.99%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.92%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.40%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.69%) Blockchain
12 26 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 21 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.30%) PKI
16 18 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.97%) Linux
2 41 (2.66%) Windows
3 20 (1.30%) Unix
4 9 (0.58%) Android
5 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.32%) CentOS
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (49.61%) CI/CD
2 636 (41.30%) Agile
3 574 (37.27%) Software Engineering
4 564 (36.62%) DevOps
5 390 (25.32%) Containerisation
6 379 (24.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 361 (23.44%) Mentoring
8 316 (20.52%) Test Automation
9 300 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 294 (19.09%) Event-Driven
11 288 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
12 285 (18.51%) AI
13 273 (17.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 201 (13.05%) Scrum
15 183 (11.88%) Coaching
16 181 (11.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 180 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
18 173 (11.23%) Computer Science
18 173 (11.23%) TDD
19 172 (11.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 522 (33.90%) Java
2 405 (26.30%) Python
3 336 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 330 (21.43%) SQL
5 306 (19.87%) C#
6 244 (15.84%) TypeScript
7 129 (8.38%) Go
8 51 (3.31%) Scala
9 48 (3.12%) C++
10 47 (3.05%) PHP
11 44 (2.86%) Bash
12 32 (2.08%) C
13 28 (1.82%) Ruby
14 24 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.49%) Rust
16 21 (1.36%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.23%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.17%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.91%) Groovy
20 11 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 182 (11.82%) Degree
2 174 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 113 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 29 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.69%) CISSP
10 23 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.71%) CISM
15 8 (0.52%) PhD
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.32%) ISACA
17 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.75%) QA
2 39 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.08%) GDPR
5 24 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.49%) NIST
7 21 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.91%) GRC
9 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.65%) NCSC
10 10 (0.65%) WCAG
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.32%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) SLA
16 1 (0.065%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.065%) Solvency II
System Software
1 453 (29.42%) Docker
2 15 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 488 (31.69%) Kubernetes
2 292 (18.96%) Terraform
3 87 (5.65%) Ansible
3 87 (5.65%) Grafana
4 48 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.62%) Argo
6 23 (1.49%) Kibana
7 17 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.84%) Puppet
9 12 (0.78%) Cilium
10 9 (0.58%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
11 4 (0.26%) Rancher
12 3 (0.19%) Istio
12 3 (0.19%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 163 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.35%) Google
3 54 (3.51%) Oracle
4 45 (2.92%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.23%) Splunk
8 16 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.91%) IBM
10 12 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.65%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.58%) Cisco
13 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.58%) SAP
14 8 (0.52%) Adobe
15 7 (0.45%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.45%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.39%) F5